Fuding White Tea: what's so special about drinking spring white tea?

With the recovery of all things and the rise of Yang Qi, the internal heat toxin accumulated in the internal organs of the human body also began to appear in spring dryness, resulting in exuberant liver fire, body inflammation, oral ulcers, sore throat, constipation, spots and other symptoms. Coupled with the warm weather in spring, the loss of a large amount of water in the human body, and the weather is uncertain, it is very important to drink white tea to eliminate inflammation and health.

Drink white tea to extinguish spring fire

People are easy to get angry in spring, such as yellowing of tongue coating, bitter pharynx, etc., coupled with the gathering of relatives and friends during the Spring Festival, eating and drinking, often high into the night, anger is inevitable.

There is a folk legend that Lady Tai used white tea to treat measles in children. Tea farmers often use old white tea to treat sore throat, toothache, soil and water, nameless fever, difficult and complicated diseases, and so on.

White tea contains 17 amino acids, including 8 essential amino acids and special amino acids such as methionine and R-aminobutyric acid. The content of ampelopsin is 4.2% mi 27.2%, of which myricetin accounts for more than 80%, and total flavonoids account for less than 20%. Two light myricetin can be used as anti-arrhythmia, inhibit platelet aggregation in vitro and thrombus formation in vivo, increase SOD activity, used to relieve summer heat and reduce inflammation, remove rheumatism and strengthen muscles and bones, treat headache, sore throat, soybean hepatitis, scabies and oral ulcers. Practice has proved that white tea can also effectively improve the damage of liver cells caused by alcohol and protect liver tissue. Therefore, it is necessary to drink a cup of white tea to dispel liver fire.

Drink white tea to prevent sleepiness in spring

The temperature is getting warmer in spring, when people tend to feel sleepy, lethargic and drowsy, which some people call "spring fatigue syndrome".

"Spring sleepy" makes people tired and depressed. White tea has the role of refreshing and anti-fatigue, so drinking white tea in spring can eliminate spring sleepiness and is good for energy recovery. The time for drinking tea can be at two or three o'clock in the afternoon, when drowsiness strikes. Drinking some white tea can refresh your mind and keep you energetic in the afternoon, so as to improve your work efficiency.

Tea can be picked in all seasons, but according to the taste grade, spring tea is the best.

Spring tea is a kind of tea collected from the budding leaves of tea trees after overwintering. After a winter's dormancy and nutrient accumulation, the tea buds are rich in organic matter, moderate temperature and sufficient rainfall in spring, which make the tea buds fat and rich in matter, and their freshness, plumpness and coordination are very high. In particular, the first spring tea contains the essence of the whole spring.

The right time to chase spring tea

Pick tea at the head

It refers to the first picking of a very small number of bud leaves that have reached the picking standard in the tea garden after the beginning of spring. Because the quantity is very small, the scope for screening is very small, so the first-picked tea is used to trial-produce the first wave of spring tea.

First spring tea

The first wave of tea picked in spring is the first spring tea as long as it is picked for the first time in the first year. For China's famous and high-quality tea, the first spring tea represents the highest quality. But even for the first spring tea, different kinds of tea are picked at different times. Fuding white tea is usually picked in early March, while in the high-altitude tea garden in the same tea area, the picking time of Touchun tea is even later.

Mingqian tea

The tea was picked in front of Ching Ming Festival. After a winter rest and recuperation, the tea tree itself is rich in material content, coupled with the generally low temperature before the Qingming Festival, the number of tea sprouting is limited and the growth rate is slow, and the yield that can reach the picking standard is very little. therefore, there is also a saying that "tea before the Ming Dynasty is as expensive as gold". To put it simply, the quality of Mingqian tea itself is good, but the quantity is small, and the time on the market is early, so it is not a small attraction to consumers.

Pre-rain tea

The tea was picked in front of Grain Rain. Although the tea before the rain is not as delicate as the tea before the Ming Dynasty, because of the high temperature at this time, the buds and leaves grow relatively fast and accumulate rich contents, so the tea before rain tends to taste fresh and strong and resistant to brewing.

Picking standard

The picking of Baihao Silver Needle

The quality of the first two rounds of spring buds is the best for silver needles, and its terminal buds are fat and large. The picking requirements of Baihao silver needles are extremely strict, generally choose sunny days, and north windy days are the best. There are ten rules for not picking, that is, no picking on rainy days, no dry dew, no picking of thin buds, no picking of purple buds, no picking of artificially damaged buds, no picking of insect buds, no picking of happy buds, no picking of hollow buds, no picking of sick buds, no picking of frost buds.

Picking of high-grade white peony

The requirements for raw materials of fresh leaves are very strict, generally picking tea buds and tender leaves with one bud and one leaf and one bud and two leaves. Mining is required to be early and tender, and it is generally mined before and after the Qingming Festival. This kind of picking standard requires high, strong seasonality, many gardeners and low yield.

Picking of common white peony

The raw materials of fresh leaves are required to have moderate tenderness, generally with one bud and two leaves, one bud and three leaves and young leaves. This picking standard takes into account both tea yield and tea quality, and the economic benefit is high.

Fuding white tea retains the most traditional way of picking-picking with bare hands. Although bare-handed picking takes a lot of work and low efficiency, it has fine picking, more batches, longer picking time, easy to pick according to the standard, and good quality of bud leaves.